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Education: MBEF makes record $8 million contribution to MBUSD

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by Mark McDermott “Are we allowed to jump up and down?” Trustee Wysh Weinstein said midway through the Manhattan Beach Unified School District’s July 15 Board of Education meeting. And she was only half joking. The praises have often been sung of Manhattan Beach Education Foundation essential contributions to MBUSD, but even so what transpired over the past few months was extraordinary.
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City Finance: Council moves towards business tax ballot measure

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by Mark McDermott It turns out there may be a reason why the City of Manhattan Beach’s business tax structure has remained untouched for 55 years. The tax is considered outdated and often inequitable, with the largest businesses paying a much lower rate than the mom and pops stores and other small businesses that the city so cherishes. But changing it, as the City Council has discovered, is a complex, messy, and somewhat boggling task.
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Manhattan Beach Certified Farmers Market turns 20

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Imagine downtown Manhattan Beach on a Tuesday if there was no farmer’s market. Nary a stone fruit in sight. No homemade pupusas. No smiling parents pulling a toddler sharing a wagon with a bunch of fresh produce, no cyclists balancing a backpack full of goodies, a bouquet of flowers in their handlebar basket. No joyous shrieks of children playing. No songs drifting through the air. It would be like Christmas minus Santa Claus, or Paris without wine and baguettes. It wouldn’t quite make sense.
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